Which WoW expansion is your favorite?

[cmill78]

I thoroughly enjoyed The Burning Crusade. It was the first time my guild got into raiding, and though I don't enjoy raiding on a consistent basis, Karazhan was a blast! After that, Wrath was good. I became slightly burnt out towards the end of that expansion and when news of Cataclysm dropped I couldn't wait to get back in.

I will defend Cata's launch since as a Vanilla lover I enjoy Azeoth. Redoing parts of the map and redoing some of the beginning quests and hubs was a breath of fresh air (except the new undead town designs, have never liked them). Everything after the Cata launch I was not impressed with, though I did continue to play up until a few months ago. But now that I am here, I have somewhere to go when expansions continue to blow.

There have been so many changes I haven't enjoyed, personally; LFR, LFG (but I was in a REALLY great guild so maybe I am biased on these), ability pruning, talent tree shrinking, Cross realm anything, fast leveling, level boost for fast access to new content, hero classes (these should start from level 1 like all the others, as it would allow the player to immerse themselves much better), etc.... But overall, I will remain a player as the lore and stories are what I fell in love with way back in Warcraft Orcs and Humans.

So in summary:

The Burning Crusade > Wrath of the Lich King > Cataclysm (launch) > Mists of Pandaria > Cataclysm (rest of) > (Space reserved for Legion, it can't possibly be worse then WoD.....right?) > Warlords of Draenor

[Jackyy]

TBC=Vanilla>WoD>CATA>MoP>WOTLK

[Arucado]

Just in order:

Vanilla > TBC > LK > Cata > Mop > Wod

So i like the most TBC because is the closest to Vanilla playstyle.
I think every expansion is a step into shit, just new content (Except from TBC that had cool stuff like arenas but conserved part of Vanilla).

Obv wow is shit as of Cataclysm.

[Acetabularia]

TBC added some great new things and part of it was basically a giant patch for vanilla. Loads of bug fixes for an already great game. Which made the pre 60s even more enjoyable. It also introduced a new way of expanding late game PvE content through new raids and especially heroics. It added profession specific items to other professions than engi, making them more relevant in PvP.
However, it also effectively split PvP and PvE by forcing players into the arena for high tier PvP gear (resilience), the honor and rep grind existed in vanilla already, but to me it felt like TBC made it the staple of late game content, which killed it for me.

Still TBC 49-69 are where some of my best memories of WoW come from so as far as expansions go this would have to be my favorite. Which I guess is not saying much, since the only other one I played was WotLK (which had some amazing PvE content and new BG, which was sadly irrelevant with arena being a thing)

[Ragstal]

thinking of pm u my answear cause u seem nice member and mature unlike the community but if u want i can post also here but its gonna be nasty cause am too frank person and doing hard judgement.

am gonna say all and none.

[Zaft]

I have to give it to TBC, and I don't think i need to go into too much detail as to why.

Not too far behind WotLK. The main reason: Class balance! If you can overlook the terrible balancing at the start of the expansion and look further into the expansion you'll see an expansion where ALL specs were viable in both PvP and PvE, with each spec being extremely close to each other in terms of dps, and if not it was usually a reason to balance it out (such as demo lock with their spell damage buff). Ulduar and ICC were both amazing, great atmosphere and great fights. I loved ICC to death. I also really liked the PvP despite being very bursty, it was a lot of fun.

My least favorite is WoD, simply because there was nothing to do outside of raids and Garrisons were complete cancer. I didn't think any expansion could be worse than MoP (hated both the Chinese and panda theme), but WoD proved to be the exception. It's kind of sad because the raids themselves weren't bad, but everything else just ruined it.

[Caarn]

I think Vanilla was the best game. TBC destroyed raiding guilds that formed in Vanilla. It also introduced the whole concept of hitting max level and then having to do the same batch of dailies day in and day out to grind rep to get marginal upgrades or shoulder enchants and other crap that numbed the experience.

Some of the raids were cool, but again, only vanilla had 40 man raids and when you beat a raid with 40 different people working together it felt like you really accomplished something. I never put in the same kind of time or commitment to following expansions which became easier and easier to faceroll or brute force your way through.

I enjoyed TBC and WOTLK, but the real magic was in vanilla. The reward for the effort was much greater.

[Bioness]

Being honest the main benefit of 40 mam raiding was that it gave more flexibility and allowed you to carry a lot more people. Barring a few encounters *cough* Four Horsemen *cough*, you could easily 20-25 man most of the raids in vanilla with gear appropriate for the time.

Other than that it was always a pain managing that many people, so reducing the size was the most obvious choice of action for Blizzard.

[CecilJohn]

I would have to say TBC.

I still remember how I raided sunwell with my hunter +/- a thousand times to get that cool bow that had infinite arrows.

[YouAreDoomed]

I don't know. They all seem the same to me. I haven't played TBC yet.